Sink

At the 2020 census, 4,942 Americans bore the surname Sink — 6,581st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 60,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,942
Rank: 6,581st
How common: 1 in 60,500
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

From the Dutch and northern German surname, from Zink (“cornetto, trumpet-like instrument”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sink described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 93.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Sink

Sadie Sink (born 2002)American actress
Robert Sink (1905–1965)United States Army officer

People named Sink with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Sink

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.